Eric Giler wants to untangle our wired lives with cable-free electric power. Here, he covers what this sci-fi tech offers, and demos MIT’s breakthrough version, WiTricity [Wikipedia entry] — a near-to-market invention that may soon recharge your cell phone, car, pacemaker.
What started out as an MIT project two years ago has now progressed into a full-fledged company — ladies and gentlemen, meet WiTricity Corp [link]… Based on magnetic induction, the magical technology is apparently mature enough to be deployed in the relatively near future… Also of note, Intel is hard at work developing the original concept, and if the parallel engineering of the same idea by two companies isn’t enough to get your skepticism dialed down and your browser to the [BBC video below], what is?
He’s promising wireless power within 18 months: